A Canadian Catholic priest, who says he left parliament under pressure from the Vatican, is suing the anti-choice, anti-contraception, anti-gay rights website LifeSiteNews for $500,000 for defamation, reports Christianity Today.

Becky Garrison: Effective next year, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-profit civil rights organization, will add The Family Research Council (FRC) and 12 other anti-gay organizations to the list of hate groups they monitor. On December 7, 2010, SPLC President Richard Cohen and SPLC's Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok held a half-hour...